Improvement in attachments for iiamf-burners



f R. HUTTON. I Lamp Burner.-

Patented Sept. 21, 1869..

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1 academic ROBERT HUTTONQQF WILL'I'AMSBURG, NEW YORK, AssIeNoR TO HIMSELF ANDJJOSEPH T. e: MIDDLETON,,OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent N0. 95,115, dated September 21,1869.

IMPROIVEMBNYT m ATTACHMENTS FOR LAMP-BURNERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all wntm it may concern Beit known that 1,-ROBEET Hermon, of Williamsburg, in the county. of Kings, and State of New. York,

have invented anew and improved Lamp-Burner; and

. ingwickto the outer part. or gallery of the burner,

and thereby prevent its transmission to the oil-reservoir. i Y

The device consists of a sort of rectangular metallic frame, surrounding and incontact with the upper part of the wick, and made in one piece, with arms which .are attached in any suitable manner to the gallery of the burner, thewhole forming no part of the burner proper, but constituting a new anduseful article of manufacture, applicable to almost all kinds of burners as well afteras before theyhave been used.

The invention consists in the construction of the de viceas hereinafter specified.

The accompanying drawings, taken in connection with this specificatiomwill enable others skilled in the art to make and-use my invention. 7 p

gigure 1 represents a side view: or front elevation, an i .7

Figure 2, a plan or top view of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding.

parts inthe several drawings.

l A represents an ordinary fiat tubular passage for the wick of alam'p, and l B, a rectangular guide placed above and'in prolongation of thetube A, but in now'ise' attached or in con tact with it, the intervening space a preventing such contact.

The guide 13 is supported and kept in position by the bracesb b, whichfare attached to its sides and to tl'iesui roimding gallery 0, as is clearly shown in fig. 1.

It will be observed that the flame or burning part of the wick is brought immediately in contact with the .guide B, and not with the tubular passage A, so that the great heat from the burning wick and oil is received directly by the guide B, which is constructed very thin and narrow, rendering it less likely to absorb or retain reach heat, but the little. it may absorb is conducted away from the wickiby'the. supports or braces b I), thus preventing the generation of explosive gases by any undue amount of heat as-applied to the wick and oil by the overheating of the burner or any of its parts. I v i It is proposed in practice, in order to present as small asurface as possible to the flame, to flare out the sides of the guides B to such angle as will bring but little else. than the mere edge in contact with the blaze, besides allowingthe air to fill the space between the wick and the guide, and thus act as a non-conductor of heat. This last-mentioned feature is clearly shown in my drawings, and I desire that it shall be regarded as part of my invention. v I do not claim, broadly, the provision of a conductor to prevent the heat of the burning wick from being transmitted to the oil-reservoir, as I am aware that j proper, butis separately applicable as and for the pur-.

poseherein'd'escrioed.

' ROBERT HUTTON.

Witnesses:

H. L. WATTENBERG, G. M. PLYMPTON. 

